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[UWaterlooStudent]

What's a Naphtha Stabilizer?

[djack77494]

What's a Naphtha Stabilizer?

A stabilizer is essentially a distillation column intended to remove what is normally a relatively small amount of "light ends" from a product. The product is then "stabilized". Thus one might run the light petroleum fraction known as naphtha through a Naphtha Stabilizer. In doing so, he/she would convert the "wild naphtha" into stabilized naphtha.

[Qalander (Chem)]

Dear

Just a very very minor addition to what doug has accurately said above;

the lighter part may also contain slight %ages of LPG like materials and some gases as well if it was"wild" or casing head naphtha.

[Padmakar Katre]

Dear

Just a very very minor addition to what doug has accurately said above;

the lighter part may also contain slight %ages of LPG like materials and some gases as well if it was"wild" or casing head naphtha.

Dear Naphtha material is C5+ so all C5(-) material is taken off and most of the refineries have the configuration of Naphtha stabilzer as a partail condenser with Fuel Gas (upto C2) and LPG as distillate (C3s-C4s) and Bottom as Naphtha (C5+).

[mbeychok]

UWaterlooStudent:

A naphtha stabilizer is essentially a debutanizer, specified and designed to remove most of the butanes and lighter components from the unstabilized (or "wild", or "raw") naphtha.